Will Craft

3 days ago | theguardian.com | Will Craft

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agency is continuing to arrest an increasing number of immigrants without any criminal history, according to recent federal government data reviewed by the Guardian, demonstrating a further dramatic surge in this trend. The latest available data, released by Ice last Friday, appears to contradict Trump administration officials’ frequent assertions that the agency is prioritizing the pursuit of criminals in its immigration enforcement operations.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Jose Olivares |Will Craft

The federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agency has exponentially increased the arrest and detention of immigrants without any criminal history since the second Trump administration took office, a data analysis by the Guardian shows. The information sharply contradicts Donald Trump’s claims the authorities are targeting “criminals” for deportation as part of his aggressive anti-immigration agenda.

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Oliver Milman |Will Craft

Donald Trump’s ambitions for the US to “drill, baby, drill” for more fossil fuels have ironically been hampered by the economic chaos unleashed by his own tariffs, but the US is still on track to increase oil and gas extraction, causing a surge in planet-heating emissions, a new analysis shows. The US was already the world’s leading oil and gas power, producing more of the fossil fuels than any country in history during Joe Biden’s administration.

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Aliya Uteuova |Will Craft |Andrew Witherspoon

When reading a chart, an outlier is often the first thing you notice. The first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second term has been full of them: immigration arrests spiking. Markets falling. Emission trends reversing. Hundreds of day one pardons to insurrectionists. Record-breaking use of executive powers. Let’s look at some of the outlying trends of the administration’s first 100 days. Tariffs caused markets to fallA line chart showing the S&P 500 decliningGuardian graphic. Source: Yahoo Finance.

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Oliver Laughland |Will Craft

Composite: Angelica Alzona/Guardian Design; Source photos via Getty ImagesThe first few months of 2025 have been tumultuous for Sheriff Bill Rogers, the chief law officer of Columbus county in North Carolina. In February, his department accusing Columbus jail deputies of neglecting the care of a county inmate who was almost beaten to death in 2023.